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News reports from Alaska have said that Palin collected per diem travel payments even when she was at home, and the Obama-Biden campaign wants reporters to see if she paid taxes on it.

McCain has disclosed little about his family finances. He files separately from his wife, Cindy, and he has put out only his 2006 and 2007 returns. The campaign released her two-page tax return for 2006, but not complete returns.

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Forget Biden. How about Obama's own records? The ones which should put questions of his inexperience to rest. What were the 3 most important decisions he made as Exectutive Organizer? What legislation has he authored? What's he ever Done? We're still waiting/

Openness? Barack Obama has persisted in a SEXIST campaign since unfairly stealing the Democratic nomination from Hilary. The SEXISM worked for him then and he thought that using the same SEXIST tactics would get him more snickers and pats on the back from the Democratic boys club. Calling a women a PIG finally went to far even for his most die-hard supporters. Until Barack Obama offers an apology to the women of America he has no right to ask for openness.

Is Politico in the tank for Obama, or what? They are obviously pulling out all stops in trying to bail out the Messiah's faltering campaign. It's sad to see. Frankly, I don't see why Dennis Miller and Laura Ingraham waste time having Politico guests ocassionally on their radio shows.

McCain is hiding behind a womans skirt because he has nothing real to allow. He had to "swallow" the whole Bush/Chenny load to get their nod for the nomination. When Bush approved him everyone else dropped out. End of story.

Obama and his pals in our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press have run a pretty good propaganda campaign thus far. But it is now coming to an end.

The FACT is if Obama wanted openness likes he CLAIMS then he would be appearing with McCain in Townhalls around the country. Obama like his enablers in our woflpack press just don't have the credibility any more....................Thank God.

"News reports from Alaska have said that Palin collected per-diem travel payments even when she was at home, and the Obama-Biden campaign wants reporters to see if she paid taxes on it. "

Not news reports Politico, A Liberal news report from the flaming liberals that run the Washington Post. And when the liberal POST ran that "per diem hit piece" front page this week We The People weigh in with our objections to this lying hit piece. But that's not stopping the corrupt liberals at the POST they have another front page story out today that "incorrectly claims" that Palin thinks Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks.

My fellow Americans with The Emperor Without Clothes now behind in the polls we can EXPECT the most corrupt liberal institution in America today to CONTINUE their support for the ONE, Obama. Just beware and try not to get contaminated by the massive propaganda campaign................................................really sad.

WALLACE: But aren't you vastly exaggerating her record as a reformer? Take a look. As mayor of Wasilla, she hired a Washington lobbyist and got $27 million in earmarks.

And in her less than two years as governor, Alaska has asked for $589 million in pork barrel projects. Her record as a reformer, particularly on the issue of earmarks, is far from clean.

DAVIS: Well, let's be clear about this. When she was mayor of Wasilla, there were already people in place who were getting those grants from the federal government. And small towns do a lot of that kind of activity because mayors...

WALLACE: She hired a Washington lobbyist who was supposed to...

DAVIS: ... mayors...

(CROSSTALK)

DAVIS: ... already involved in that, and so...

WALLACE: She hired a — she...

DAVIS: But let me also point out these...

WALLACE: ... she did hire a lobbyist.

DAVIS: ... these pork barrel projects that you talk about — these were not projects that she tried to get. These were projects that the Republican establishment in Alaska, who she campaigned against and beat many times over — were the ones picking those grants up.

Let me remind you, she vetoed more bills. She cut back on more pork barrel spending in the state legislature than any previous governor. She converted that legislature into reform because she passed ethics reforms and corruption reforms.

She railed against the establishment in Alaska and was able to accomplish great things like passing a significant energy bill that allowed them to create a natural gas pipeline.

These are all things that a true reformer is able to accomplish. So you know, I don't disagree with the fact that these — there were pork barrel projects coming to Alaska, but not from her. Within the state legislature, she beat back those efforts.

WALLACE: Wait a minute. First of all...

DAVIS: She's not a federal...

WALLACE: ... as governor, Alaska — during her 1.5 years, 2 years as governor, Alaska continued to get more federal money for pork barrel projects per capita than any state in the country.

DAVIS: Yeah.

WALLACE: And she was...

(CROSSTALK)

WALLACE: This works better...

DAVIS: Sure.

WALLACE: ... if I get to ask the question.

DAVIS: OK.

WALLACE: And she supported the "bridge to nowhere," and it was only after the federal government dropped it out and killed it, the Congress killed it, that she then opposed it. And in fact, she still got the money for the approach, the ramp, to the "bridge to nowhere."

DAVIS: Congress didn't beat back the "bridge to nowhere." That funding...

WALLACE: I know, but she accepted the money.

DAVIS: That funding was in the grant, and she said, "I'm not spending that money." And what they did — they took a $500 million bridge and she turned it into a $2 million ferry. And that's what she did on her own without any help from anybody else.

WALLACE: Well, actually, it was Congress that killed the money for the "bridge to nowhere."

Last night everyone kept trying to make the statement we shouldnt hold Sarah Palin accountable for not knowing the Bush Doctrine because NOBODY knows what the Bush Doctrine is. Unfortunately this video shows that at least ONE other person knows what the Bush Doctrine is: John McCain

UPDATE: The Jed Report posted this video of John McCain explaining the Bush Doctrine:

Bring it on! The faster Obama moves without seeing clearly the easier and faster it will be for him to fall on his face. The sooner the better. The LIBS are in a panic and you know what- they deserve to be- they didn't earn anything, and any Clinton who offers Obama advice is just playing games. DO you actually believe they want him to win? Please, the naivity is deafening. Of the two candidates the more experianced choice is McCain and those who want to live in denial are looking more and more stupid each day.

Obama wants OPENNESS! What hypocrisy! What Hubris! How about we get Obama's legitimate BIRTH records along with this Palin anal exam? How about the straight dope on his financial dealings with Wright and his racist church? With Rezco? With Ayres? What about the money a "community organizer" (Chicago Democrat machine hack) hands out on the streets. If we can't get this info immediately, after eighteen months of asking, Obama needs to shut-up.

...Obama the Bot and his trusty sidekick, the teleprompter, are in no position to make demands of McCain and Palin. These bots, products of the Chicago Democratic Machine, are simply mind-numb robots that can't think for themselves and just follow the marching orders to atttack McCain and Palin. McCain and Palin are having none of that...

News reports from Alaska have said that Palin collected per-diem travel payments even when she was at home, and the Obama-Biden campaign wants reporters to see if she paid taxes on it.

Yeh, that's all Obama's crew of 30 dirt diggers could find on Palin in Alaska!

What's wrong with this picture anyway? Palin lives with her family in a governor's house in one city. Her own house is in another city. Her household is set up in the governor's house. So, when she travels to a different city and lives there, she has every right to submit the expence report charging her meals while on the road even when she lives in her home city. The author of this article, the Alaskan reporter, agrees this is a business-as-usual thing and there is nothing illegal about it.

So. Obama and Biden are grasping for air here trying to pull another "lipstick on a pig". I think it is time for McCain campaign to start exposing Obama/Biden on real issues, namely:

1. Biden stating Clinton would have been a better VP - is this an overt criticizm of his boss' judgement?

2. Obama's definite promise to expand Government to some socialistic standards (he said yesterday at Columbia that he'd like to have cabinets that oversee public service opportunities in various sectors, i.e., veterans, seniors, military, etc)

3. What about Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers? Does Obumble think we no longer remember?

Keep talking to yourselves Republicans. Change=Lobbyists running McCain campaign Change=Karl Rove Change=Ex Bushies surrounding Sarah Palin You are all so funny. McCain was the wrong choice and Palin was a nice distraction. Those "independent" voters you are counting on totally see through the lies. And what's even funnier is you are scared of an educated or in Republican speak elitist black man. Keep validating yourselves or shall I say masturbating. Oops, I might have just said something sexist. Boo Hoo. LOLOLOLO!!!! I can haz fwrn polsee exprienz? OMG! By the way, my family is from a small town in one of those "key states" you are all praying for. There aren't as many church ladies as you think!

Speaking of 'Openness', one thing the Obama campaign could do, both to point out the dire effects of a Palin/McCain win and to raise more campaign funds, would be to market a life-d, anatomically-correct, vinyl blow-up Sarah Palin doll so we can all do to it what she will do to all of us if elected.